New York · Private foundation
Columbian Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Columbian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $85k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $84k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $60k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $101k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $69k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $72k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cayuga County Community College Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Auburn Public Theater Inc | $30,700 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way of Cayuga County Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Skaneateles Early Childhood Center Inc | $19,500 | 4 | 1% |
| King Ferry Food Pantry Inc | $17,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Literacy Volunteers of Cayuga Co Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Matthew House Inc | $14,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Perform 4 Purpose Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Spafford Area Historical Society | $13,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Columbian Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc · Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · De French Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Dwight W Winkelman Foundation Inc · The Schwartz Family Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · The Dr Joseph F Karpinski Sr Foundation · United Way of Cayuga County Inc
How this is measured
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About Columbian Foundation Inc
- How much does Columbian Foundation Inc give?
- Columbian Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $85,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Columbian Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (15%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Columbian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Cayuga County Community College Foundation Inc ($35k), Auburn Public Theater Inc ($31k), United Way of Cayuga County Inc ($30k).
- Does Columbian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Columbian Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Columbian Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Stanley W Metcalf Foundation Inc, Fred L Emerson Foundation Inc, Central New York Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Columbian Foundation Inc based?
- Columbian Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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